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Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:34:22 +0000
If you’re across the Atlantic or couldn’t get to RSA, we’re bringing RSA to you via Facebook Live. In his presentation, Sophos product management director Russell Humphries talks about how machine learning will change the battle against malware. And, find out how we are bringing machine learning into the fold with our plans to acquire […]
Credit to Author: Kate Kochetkova| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:33:14 +0000
Ransomware terrorizes users and companies around the world, preventing access to data and demanding more and more money for its safe return. Take this quiz and learn how to secure your digital life.
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Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:36:00 -0800
A controversial provision in U.S. law that gives the National Security Agency broad authority to spy on people overseas expires at the end of the year, and six major tech trade groups are gearing up for a fight over an extension.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expires on Dec. 31, and Congress almost certain to extend it in some form.
The tech trade groups, including BSA, the Consumer Technology Association, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association, are asking lawmakers to build in new privacy protections for internet users.
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Credit to Author: Stacy Collett| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 04:29:00 -0800
New U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions may disagree about whether there is a shortage of skilled IT workers in America, as he has asserted at hearings over the past two years, but talk to most CISOs and they will confirm that when it comes to cybersecurity talent in particular, the skills shortage is very real.
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Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:45:00 -0800
Members of Congress reintroduced bills that would place curbs on warrantless access by the government to electronically generated geolocation information of Americans, including on the use of cell-site simulators that can capture cellphone data.
A bill introduced Wednesday, called the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, aims to create clear rules for when law enforcement agencies can acquire an individual’s geolocation information, generated from electronic devices like smartphones, GPS units and Wi-Fi equipped laptops.
Another bill, the Cell Location Privacy Act of 2017, requires law enforcement, including local, state and federal agencies, to obtain a warrant for the use of cell-site simulators, with exceptions such as the use of the technology in emergencies or for foreign intelligence surveillance. It also imposes a fine or imprisonment of up to 10 years, or both, for any one knowingly using a cell-site simulator, except under certain exceptions like a warrant.
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Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:32:41 +0000
Greetings from RSA Conference 2017. This year we’ve been taking advantage of Facebook Live* to help us deliver news from the show floor. Here, I talk to Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist in the Office of the CTO, about IoT threats and ransomware. If you’re at the show and have some questions of your own […]
Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:10:00 -0800
Vendors at this week’s RSA cybersecurity show in San Francisco are pushing artificial intelligence and machine learning as the new way to detect the latest threats, but RSA CTO Zulfikar Ramzan is giving visitors a reality check.
“I think it [the technology] moves the needle,” he said on Wednesday. “The real open question to me is how much has that needle actually moved in practice?”
It’s not as much as vendors claim, Ramzan warned, but for customers it won’t be easy cutting through the hype and marketing. The reality is that a lot of the technology now being pushed isn’t necessarily new.
In particular, he was talking about machine learning, a subfield in A.I. that’s become a popular marketing term in cybersecurity. In practice, it essentially involves building algorithms to spot bad computer behavior from good.
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Credit to Author: Martyn Williams| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:32:00 -0800
Ransomware is increasingly becoming a problem for companies, and the CEO of a leading computer security firm says he fears 2017 could see entire companies shut down until they pay up, or risk losing all their data.
Ransomware works by infiltrating a computer with malware and then encrypting all the files on the disk. The user is presented with a limited time offer: Lose all your data or send money with the promise your data will be unlocked. The fee typically varies from tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars and often has to be transmitted in Bitcoin.
The problem began on a fairly small scale, targeting individual users, but has been growing. Last year, a hospital in Los Angeles admitted to paying $17,000 to get its system unlocked, and a report in October said ransomware cases were on course to quadruple in 2016 over the previous year.
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